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Track premiere: Starry Skies “Be Kind” – Listen

September 20, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

We ran a track from the new album from Starry Skies last month and so delighted were we with it that we’re first on board with the release of their new single ‘Be Kind’ which is […]

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Video: AlascA – “Red Herring”

September 20, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

More evidence that Americana is something approaching a universal musical language comes from the Netherlands in the shape of AlascA and a live version of this excellent track from their latest album, Plea For Peace, out […]

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Zack Logan “Raised by Wolves” (Independent, 2018)

September 19, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

Zack Logan comes from a long tradition of American singer songwriters mining a seam of blue collar, working man’s hopes and dreams. Opening with the subtle finger-picked delight ‘Annalee’ with its gorgeous string backing is reminiscent […]

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Courtney Marie Andrews has a new song, UK dates

September 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

We’re rather big fans of Courtney Marie Andrews here at AUK and she’s just released a new track ‘Heart and Mind’, a standalone cut that she is putting out because in her own words she “wanted to […]

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They Might Be Giants “The Communists Have the Music”

September 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

This year alone They Might Be Giants released their 20th full-length album ‘I Like Fun’ (don’t we all?), played 50 US cities demolishing stages to mostly sold out rooms, was nominated for a Tony award for their song ‘I’m Not A […]

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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